What's that next to the Tony's pizza, frozen vegetables and
Lean Cuisine? Why a wirelessly remote controlled, $1,500 Transmeta
efficeon notebook running benchmarks. And what happened?
Performance improved up to 20%, among other things.

Warning:
Don't try this at home! Frost WILL form on your notebook which
could cause the system to short-circuit and catastrophically fail.

Get a
sneak peek at this COSBI OpenSourceMark beta, the most flexible, useful and
verifiable benchmark available today. OSMark is a comprehensive
benchmarking suite that is easily user extensible and will be ported to
Linux. We'll be releasing the source code as soon as we finish the
documentation and stomp out the remaining bugs. Follow the link above to learn how to use OSMark and
download the beta.

In our
first major article in nearly a year, we closely examine the merits of the
struggling, brash little CPU designer and its chances to reverse its
fortunes with an ambitious new design dubbed "Astro."

Spencer writes,
"How are we going to wring out the maximum performance from AMD Opteron
systems? We don't want to simply match existing SMP performance (which
can be awful) but develop both OS and application designs which take
advantage of the lack of limitations the new AMD architecture provides."
Read more on what Spencer has to say
here.

Phil writes, "Spencer’s
link
on the thermal properties of carbon nanotubes got me thinking how it might
be used in thermal paste for CPUs. Here is my email to Nevin House with
Arctic Silver along with his response."